Musk's long Weibo post sparked controversy 360 car companies jointly empower safe driving

Recently, Musk released a long microblog titled "Elon Musk: Safety is our primary goal in designing Tesla" through Tesla's official microblog account. "In addition to the solid body structure, Tesla's safety also comes from the Autopilot automatic assisted driving function and its visual processing system 'Tesla Vision'." Musk wrote. Although "safety" is Tesla's primary goal, from the exposure of user privacy incidents to the "rooftop rights protection" incident of car owners at the Shanghai Auto Show, Tesla seems to be drifting away from "safety".

As an automaker, "safety" must be the core. However, the safety issues faced by automakers in the future are complex and diverse. "In the digital age, the Internet of Everything has allowed software to redefine cars, and everything is programmable." Zhou Hongyi, founder and chairman of 360 Group, expressed his views on car safety at the recent World Intelligence Conference. He believes that digitalization has not only redefined cars, subverted car structures, but also redefined car safety.

Previously, a market research organization pointed out that electric vehicles, with their advantages such as convenient signal transmission and sensitive current and voltage control, will be more closely integrated with the development trend of autonomous driving in the automotive industry and develop in a coordinated manner. The pace of intelligentization of electric vehicles will undoubtedly gradually accelerate. However, Musk's long Weibo post once again focused the public's attention on the issue of automobile safety, especially the safety issues of future intelligent automobiles.

What kind of security issues will cars face after becoming smart? Zhou Hongyi believes that the smartness of cars is not simply replacing the battery in the fuel tank or the motor in the generator. Its essence is intelligence, networking and data. Zhou Hongyi also made a vivid metaphor: cars are like a large sensor. He believes that cars are equipped with various cameras, radars, speedometers and navigators, which enables the car to continuously collect data including location, environment, road conditions and other information and collect them in the cloud, which brings big data security issues.

This is just one of many security threats. In the future, when smart cars are connected to the Internet, many functions will be software-based. Each car will be a mobile computing center. The code behind the vehicle will increase exponentially, resulting in more vulnerabilities and more opportunities for malicious attacks. At the same time, the existence of too many vulnerabilities will also affect the normal operation of the vehicle. "Suppose the vehicle is traveling at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, and at a certain moment the brake code freezes and the brakes fail, which may result in the destruction of the car and the death of people." Zhou Hongyi said. In addition, traditional security protection measures are no longer applicable today. Protection measures such as antivirus software and firewalls can no longer guarantee the safe driving of future smart cars.

Based on this, 360 Company (360 601360.SH) has jointly built a car safety brain with car companies, integrating its own new generation of security protection capabilities with the security brain as the core into the car-making capabilities of car companies. It is understood that this is also one of the reasons why 360 and Nezha Auto jointly built cars. At present, 360 Security Brain has been connected to more than 1 million cars, and has discovered and intercepted risks more than 100,000 times in total. Through real-time security protection, it protects the security of car networking and ecology. Last year, 360 also helped Mercedes-Benz discover and patch 19 system vulnerabilities, making efforts for car safety.

Returning to electric vehicles themselves, the sales of electric vehicles will continue to grow in the future. The "Global Electric Vehicle Outlook 2021" released by the International Energy Agency shows that the number of new electric vehicle registrations in the world reached a record high of 3 million in 2020, an increase of 41% over the previous year. It is expected that the strong growth momentum will continue in the next 10 years. At the same time, as of the end of 2020, the number of electric vehicles in the world exceeded 10 million. China and Europe continue to be the main markets for the growth of global electric vehicle sales. It can be seen that the market prospects for electric vehicles in the future are still very broad. This also means that safety issues will continue to be the focus of public attention for a long time to come.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.